LA County Arts & Culture: Advancement Grant for School Districts

LA County Arts & Culture: Advancement Grant for School Districts

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Los Angeles Arts Ed Collective
Amount: Up to US $25,000
Last Updated: February 12, 2026

Summary

The LA County Arts & Culture Advancement Grant supports school districts in providing quality arts education to all students. With flexible matching grants up to $25,000, this program aims to achieve equity, scale, and quality in arts education, particularly for historically underserved communities. By investing in strategic arts plans, the grant fosters sustainable practices that enrich students' learning experiences, ensuring that every child has year-round access to diverse art forms and culturally relevant instruction.

Overview

Advancement Grant Program for School Districts The Advancement Grant Program offers flexible matching grants to support Los Angeles County school districts aiming to provide quality arts education for public school students. Grant funds assist school districts in achieving key action items in their district arts plans, helping districts invest in launching or expanding projects that align with priority goals, and cultivating skills and practices that can be sustained beyond the term of the grant. Districts may apply for matching funds of up to $25,000. What Is The Goal Of This Grant? The Advancement Grant offers financial support to Los Angeles County school districts working to provide quality arts education to all students. The goals of the grant are to: assist school districts in achieving key action items in their strategic plans for arts educationgenerate resources, practices, skills, or knowledge that will be sustained beyond the term of the grantdirect resources and investments into historically underserved communities to increase learning in the arts for youth who continue to face structural and systemic barriers to high quality, culturally sustaining arts education What Are We Trying To Achieve? The new Arts Ed Blueprint sets new targets for providing arts education for every child across all of LA County. The Advancement Grant seeks to address the following: Scale - Every young person in every neighborhood has year-round opportunities for learning in and through the arts in school, after school, and in their communityEquity - Every young person, regardless of race, culture, language, income, religions, national origin, legal status, place of residence, gender identity, LGBTQ+ status, or ability receives high-quality, culturally sustaining arts education. Young people who have been historically excluded or precluded from learning in the arts receive the resources and investments required to meet their needs.Quality - Arts instruction is thoughtfully and intentionally designed to:build artistic, technical, and creative skills;encompass a variety of art forms and genres;connect arts learning to other areas of study, growth, and development;reflect the culture, language and heritage of the learner;introduce the learner to the cultures, languages and heritages of others;expose young people to creative careers; andrecognize the region’s rich cultural diversity.Culturally Relevant, Responsive, and Sustaining Instruction - Asset-based teaching practices that view diversity in thought, culture, and traits as strengths. Instruction is designed to accept and affirm the backgrounds of students of color (Culturally Relevant); connect to students’ cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and frames of reference (Culturally Responsive); and sustain cultural ways of being in communities of color while supporting students to critique dominant power structures in society (Culturally Sustaining).In-School Arts Education - Learning in the arts takes place during the school day as part of an integrated or discrete, sequential arts curriculum.After-School Arts Education - Learning in the arts takes place outside of school hours, either on a school campus or for youth who are part of a specific school community, and intentionally augments or deepens in-school arts education.

Eligibility

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